24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-35)Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I. His solemn preface to this discourse, in which he bespeaks Job’s attention, which he had litt…
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